Legal Opinion
Sprewell v. NYP Holdings, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 19, 2007PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Buckley, J.
This action for defamation arises out of a series of articles written by defendant Marc Berman and published in the New York Post, owned by defendant NYP Holdings, Inc. (the Post). Insofar as pertinent to this appeal, plaintiff Latrell Sprewell, a basketball player formerly with the New York Knickerbockers (the Knicks), asserts that he was libeled by statements in Berman’s articles regarding the cause of a hand injury, which were based, in part, on information provided by confidential sources, defendants John Does 1 and 2.
It is undisputed that sometime in…
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- Bement v. N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- Collins v. Troy Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
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